General relativity news, research and analysis - the conversation

February 12, 2016 Alexander Lenz, _Durham University_ There’s a good reason you should care about the discovery of gravitational waves, even if you don’t understand the science. February 12,

2016 Paul Lasky, _Monash University_ and Letizia Sammut, _Monash University_ The discovery of gravitational waves involved a team of more than 1,000 scientists from across the globe,

including Australia. So how does such an international collaboration work? February 12, 2016 Geraint Lewis, _University of Sydney_ It’s taken centuries for our understanding of gravity to

evolve to where it is today, culminating in the discovery of gravitational waves, as predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago. October 3, 2017 Chad Hanna, _Penn State_ Here’s a LIGO

insider’s description of how he got the news of a phenomenon that had first been theorized 100 years ago. February 11, 2016 Gren Ireson, _Nottingham Trent University_ If you understand how a

trampoline works, you’ll be able to understand what gravitational waves are. February 11, 2016 Ed Daw, _University of Sheffield_ A glimpse inside a truly extraordinary experiment. December

20, 2015 Tim Dean, _The Conversation_ 2015 was a year where we expanded our view of the universe, embraced new technologies and got a hint of the profound changes to come. December 17, 2015

Martin Hendry, _University of Glasgow_ Four decades later, I find myself surveying 13 billion years of cosmic history and mapping events that really did happen a long time ago in galaxies

far, far away. November 30, 2015 Glen Mackie, _Swinburne University of Technology_ After the triumph of general relativity, Albert Einstein spent the rest of his life chasing a unified

theory, which eluded him right up until the end. November 26, 2015 Geraint Lewis, _University of Sydney_ Many people think relativity puts a hard speed limit on the universe, but it actually

opens up the possibility of faster-than-light travel - if we can overcome some significant practical hurdles. November 26, 2015 Margaret Wertheim, _The University of Melbourne_ Einstein’s

theory of general relativity is a triumph of reason and imagination, of art and science, with a profound beauty of its own. November 24, 2015 Robin Tucker, _Lancaster University_ Physicists

are working hard to unite Einstein’s theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. It’s no easy task. November 24, 2015 David Lyth, _Lancaster University_ Space, time and space-time: it’s all

relative. November 23, 2015 Michael J. I. Brown, _Monash University_ General relativity challenges our intuitive conception of how space and time work, which might explain why it’s such a

popular target for crank theorists. November 22, 2015 John K. Webb, _UNSW Sydney_ and Darren Dougan, _UNSW Sydney_ Special relativity was inspired, but it took true genius to conceive of

general relativity. Had Einstein not come up with it, it may have taken decades for us to figure it out. November 11, 2015 Csaba Balazs, _Monash University_ We talk about mass all the time

but what is it that actually gives an object mass? And why do some things have mass and others have no mass at all? November 9, 2015 Krzysztof Bolejko, _University of Sydney_ This month is

the centenary of the general theory of relativity. But how did we get from the absolutism of Newton to the relativity of Einstein? September 16, 2015 Alan Duffy, _Swinburne University of

Technology_ and Elisabetta Barberio, _The University of Melbourne_ A new detector built deep underground in a gold mine will hopefully unravel the mystery of dark matter. June 16, 2015

Richard Gunderman, _Indiana University Indianapolis_ Scientists are not always as scientific as many suppose. Recent well-publicized cases of scientific fraud prove that scientists can be as

susceptible to the allures of wealth, power and fame as politicians… March 12, 2015 Jonathan Borwein (Jon), _University of Newcastle_ and David H. Bailey, _University of California, Davis_

A special Pi Day this year for those who celebrate this remarkable number on March 14, a date that can be written 3/14. Given 3.14 is Pi to two decimal places, what happens when you add in

the year?